of their pupils' progress. it is feared children from disadvantaged backgrounds will be affected most. we know that nothing can compensate for those relationships between teachers and their pupils so, again, planning for when schools reopen, how that catch up is going to be achieved. for those able to take advantage, technology and resources can help like never before. today, the bbc is enhancing its online educational content and, when the school bells do ring once again, whenever that may be, it will mean we're notjust getting back to school but also back to normality. john maguire, bbc news. and you can get all the details of the bbc‘s bitesize daily service which offers tailored lessons for pupils across the uk — on the website — bbc.co.uk/bitesize

after raising more than 26—million—pounds for the nhs by walking 100 laps of his garden, 99—year—old war veteran captain tom is now on course for another remarkable achievement. # you'll never walk alone. after a first performance with michael ball on bbc breakfast last week — their version of ‘you'll never walk alone‘, together with an nhs choir, is now on course to top the uk singles chart. nearly 36,000 copies have been sold in 48 hours. time for a look at the weather. here is chris. hello, simon. lots of sunshine on offer in the week ahead, high pressure firmly in charge, fine weather, if you are able to get out for a socially distant walk, the beachesin for a socially distant walk, the beaches in dorset suitably sparsely populated. the satellite shows clear skies, some rain bearing clouds skirting the north—west of france, it's going to stay there are the

rest of this afternoon, we have dry weather and sunshine but with some gusty easterly winds, gusting 30 odd miles an hour. 0vernight, we could see some isolated showers working into the channel islands, the isles of scilly for a time but otherwise dry, clear, starry skies, staying quite breezy so it doesn't get too cold, temperatures for— 7 degrees for most of us, cold enough for a nip of frost in some of the stab scottish valleys. tuesday we start with more sunshine, in many cases sunshine from dawn until dusk. patchy cloud towards the channel islands, isles of scilly burning away quite quickly through the morning, we have gusty easterly winds, gusting 30 odd miles an hour per parts of england and wales, easterly winds coming across cold seas, water temperature only 7 degrees, 9 degrees maximum. for that reason, the east coast of scotland, the eastern coast of england, kept a little bit fresher, still one in the sunshine, 15 degrees not bad but the highest temperatures will be further

west. looking at highs of 19 or 20 degrees. across parts of wales, the south west midlands, south—west england. the hotspots will be. high pressure staying with us for wednesday. the isobar is beginning to spread out a little, that means the easterly winds will be blowing a little bit less strongly, again on wednesday, another day of sunshine from dawn until dusk for many of us. lighter winds. allowing less mixing of the atmosphere and temperatures can geta of the atmosphere and temperatures can get a little bit higher, even towards the east coast, 16 degrees in hull but inland pushing into the 20s for england and wales, highs of around 18 degrees for western areas of scotland, may be around 17 for western counties of northern ireland. thursday looks like the warmest day of this week. again, light winds, few morning mist and fog patches clearing quickly, highest temperatures could reach around 23 or 2a celsius which is quite warm for this time of year. further north we also see temperatures rise, highs of 18 degrees or so in glasgow. another fine day on friday, as we edge into

the weekend, looks like it will turn a little bit cloudier, temperatures coming down a few degrees. there is a chance we will start to see some showers but for the rest of this week the weather looking fine with lots of sunshine on offer. if you can't manage to get outside for a socially distant walk. chris, thank you. a reminder of our top story. more warnings over personal protective equipment with some hospitals in england saying supplies of gowns are critically low. ministers say more kit will arrive from turkey today. that's all from the bbc news at one — so it's goodbye from me — and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. for news teams where you are. me, good afternoon.

hello, you're watching the bbc news channel. it's a little after 1.30pm, i'm maz farookhi with the latest sports headlines. serena williams still has the belief and motivation to win more grand slams — that's according to her coach patrick mouratoglou. williams is the most successful player of the modern era with 23 majors, but is still one short of equalling margaret court's all—time record of 24. the american hasn't won a grand slam for over three years, but mouratoglou insists she still has the hunger to keep going. time is not working for her so much. she will be 39 this year, 39 years old. but i think she is still in very good shape. she had some physical issues last year, but she recovered well. i think she has an incredible athlete and i think she is an incredible champion as well. she has shown it many times in her career. she is so different and she is able to do things that probably other people can't. what is most

important for me is that the motivation is still here. as far as the motivation it is still the same and we always believe that she can make it. and she believes. that is the most important. the double paralympic champion richard whitehead says he'll have to be "even better" if he's to win a third gold medal at next year's rearranged tokyo games. whitehead defended his t42 200 metre title in rio four years ago, but says his preparations for 2021's rescheduled paralympics will now have to change dramatically. i have worked to peak over the four yea rs i have worked to peak over the four years for this year, so then to go for a short cycle, so myself and my tea m for a short cycle, so myself and my team are going to have to be super dynamic and work outside the box to find other areas to get those 1% areas are moving forwards because i'm not 20 years old any more. i am a mature athlete that is still striving to be better, so it is going to be really challenging for myself and my team.

three years on since he received life—changing injuries, racer billy monger is urging people to stay at home during the coronavirus pandemic to protect nhs staff, who he believes are responsible for him being alive today. monger had to have both legs amputated, aged just 17, after a high—speed formula 4 crash at donington park. now he races in a specially adapted car, and for the first time has removed his prosthetic to show how severe the effects of the crash were on his body. 0bviously obviously we have been a lockdown for a little while now and i have seen a lot of people doing lots of different things to sort of raise awareness and money for the nhs and for that fund and to sort of help us through these tough times. and obviously the ongoing situation we find ourselves in now. itjust felt right, really, to do a video to sum up my right, really, to do a video to sum up my experience with the nhs and what they have given to me, which is

life itself, really, because i could quite easily not be here now without them. i guess it isjust to put that into words for the people out there, so they can appreciate what people atan so they can appreciate what people at an individual level have taken away from the nhs before this. now, danish superliga side fc midtjylland have revealed their plans to get as many fans as possible watching the side when the league resumes — with "drive in football" at their stadium. they've installed two huge screens in the car park of the mch arena — here's one of them — with enough room for 2,000 cars to watch. it's a pretty innovative way for fans to share the match day experience, whilst maintaining social distancing. we tried to find out what could be a possibility here in group back and one of the things is that we have very, very many parking spaces around the stadium. what we did here is say, you have to drive to the stadium in yourcar,

is say, you have to drive to the stadium in your car, you have to stay in the car and can only open the window in one side of the car and then we are also placing cameras on the screen, photographing the ca rs on the screen, photographing the cars and this we are going to bring inside the stadium so that the players inside the stadium will have the feeling that we are sitting outside supporting them. and that is all the sport for now — i'll have more for you in the next hour. thank you very much. the former prime minister tony blair is calling on the government to bring in a "combination of people from the outside" with different skillsets to support senior politicians and the civil service during the coronavirus crisis. when asked about the prime minister's absence from cobra meetings earlier in the year, mr blair told victoria derbyshire he's not being critical but, rather, is trying to offer useful advice. i'm sure the government, the people in government have been doing everything they possibly can. i think the most important thing is not, you know, who is doing theirjob well and who is doing it badly. it is whether you have the right combination of skills at the centre

of government to handle some of these things, so if you take for example protective equipment. that is gowns and masks and the things that the front—line medical staff need, and the things, by the way, that we all may need as we go back to work. that is, yes, of course you need the government system, but that is a skill that is better found in the private sector than it is in the public sector, so you know, that's. . . my issues are really around how you position government, not going over who should have attended what meeting. i mean, we can get to all that at a later stage. right now, i think we have just got to focus on the future. well, that it is really interesting because there are some people who say, "now is not the time." and there are others who say, "if now isn't the time, then when?" there are front—line workers who are not receiving ppe and they are having to make a decision about whether they go to work and do theirjob, put their own lives at risk, without sufficient ppe.

how would you describe the fact that workers are having to do that? it is terrible, of course it is. i mean ourfront line nhs staff and also the people in care homes... i mean, they have been unbelievable, magnificent. and yes, of course they have got to have the protective equipment. i guess what i'm saying is let's make sure they now get it, and the government has now put someone specifically, someone from the business sector, in charge of this because we need to acquire it from wherever we can in the world and we also need to be producing our own because some of these things to produce, they are not hugely complicated, but you need to mobilise the private sector to do it. so all i am saying is of course it is a terrible situation that they don't have the stuff they need now, but let's concentrate right now on actually getting it to them. tony blair. while much of the coronavirus death toll has come from western nations,

concern is growing about the rise of cases elsewhere. it is feared workers in developing nations could face extreme poverty and hunger when lockdown measures are imposed, stripping them of theirjobs and income. the actor idris elba and his wife sabrina — who have both recovered from the virus — have joined forces with the un's international fund for agricultural development. they are helping to raise $200 million to support workers who produce the majority of the globe's food, but could face ruin when they are hit by quarantines. my colleaguejoanna gosling heard from idris and sabrina earlier this afternoon. we are working with the un's international fund for agricultural development, like you said. they've got the $40 million, and now this appeal to raise the $200 million is really going to focus on the workers in rural areas like africa, asia. they are also covering latin america and the middle east, who are going to suffer from the economic fallout of this pandemic. there is a lot of focus on the health crisis now, as there should be. people are dying and countries are having to deal with severe

issues at home, but we do need to start thinking about, past that, looking at a holistic approach to the situation. blin that is what we are trying to talk about today. past the health crisis, there is going to be a lot of people who will be suffering from the economic fallout. with ebola, more people actually died from the economic aftermath than the actual disease itself. yes, i hear that loud and clear. it is about supporting people's livelihoods and financial position rather than spending money on tackling the health crisis. in terms of persuading governments to support this fund when they are already facing crisis at home, what is the message to them? they are already digging deep at home. i think that is a good point and i think it is about future planning. you know, had we know this was coming maybe six months ago, we could maybe plan for the nhs struggle, plan for the economic fallout in our own country. perhaps we would not be in such dire straits at the moment,

which is what we are suggesting in terms of the rural countries, farmers that were already poor and do not have the economic background and strength that we do, they are going to get hard hit. not to mention that we are very fortunate we have the nhs, but some of these countries do not have an nhs. outside of the economic fallout that is going to happen, there will be a lot of deaths as well and no support. what we can do is help to prevent that and that is what this fund is for. we know very much that governments are struggling with their own countries at this point, but i think it is about forward planning. if we have learned anything about this world, what we have learned from covid—19 is that no man is an island. we are all part of the world. if we can help each other, forward thinking, that is going to save lives and livelihoods. who would you expect to be donating? is it governments, or companies,

perhaps, that rely on supplies from the workers you are talking about? it is governments. it's governments that already support ifad and agriculture. and it is people that understand the wealth of agriculture in terms of if we understand that 50% of all the world's calories are made by farmers in areas that are going to suffer the worst. our shopping centres, ourfood banks, are all going to also suffer in the future if we do not help the agriculture business before they suffer. that is what we are asking. we're not asking individuals who, at the moment, are also strapped. but we are talking about governments to think about the future and help the agriculture industry survive. it is about food. it is about the basic necessity for human beings and that will run out if farmers cannot farm.

hs and sabrina talking tojoanna a little earlier on. the headlines on bbc news: more warnings from hospitals in england over shortages of personal protective equipment. some say supplies of gowns are critically low. sir richard branson warns that virgin atlantic will collapse unless it receives support from the british government — he says the industry faces "severe uncertainty". germany is relaxing some of its lockdown measures from today, with the outbreak there now said to be ‘under control‘. to pick up on one of those stories, sir richard branson has warned that the airline will collapse unless it receives support from the british government. he says there were severe their uncertainty facing the industry because it is not known how long planes will be grounded for. virgin australia has gone into

administration because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. sir richard branson writes, he also says he has seen lots of comments on his net worth points out, earlier, we spoke to our transport corresponded, who says the future of the airline is hanging by a thread. i think this is an attempt by sir richard branson and the virgin group more generally to counter some of the negative publicity that sir richard has faced in the media in recent weeks. he is obviously an incredibly wealthy individual, but in the letter he really tries to explain that a lot of his money is tied up ina multitude of businesses, which obviously virtually all of them are losing huge amounts

of money in this crisis. he has faced a lot of criticism, of course, because he personally isn't a taxpayer here in the uk and in this letter, i think there is an interesting paragraph where he says that he did not, he claims he did not, leave the uk for tax reasons. he left the uk for his love of his island, his private island that he bought many years ago in the caribbean. necker. so it is an attempt, i think, to sort of counter some of the negative publicity because ultimately virgin atlantic is going cap in hand to the government. it has been in discussions with the treasury for a number of weeks now. the treasury is effectively doing this. it's not saying, like other governments around the world, namely the us government, to the airline industry, "here is a "load of money and we will bail you out wholesale." what it is saying is come to us on an individual, case—by—case basis. we know that virgin atlantic has also beenjoined by the scottish carrier, loganair. those two airlines have gone to the treasury and submitted an application. it is a rigorous process,

they have got to basically do a lot of homework and present a huge amount of transparency about their accounts and their business and the business model going forward. and it is not possible, this idea that the government might bail an airline like virgin atlantic out, but actually taking a stake in the airline in return, that is not being ruled out by the government at the moment. it may not be the most serious dilemma facing us during this current time, but the closure of barbers and hair salons has led many of you to taking matters into your own hands when it comes to your hair. social media has been flooded with images of diy haircut disasters over recent weeks, which has led to a company offering live video tutorials to guide people through their trim. i'm joined now by the co—founder of lockdown haircut, dan silvertown, and also i'm joined by one of the barbers taking part, ben may. thank you both forjoining us. darn, i will start with you. this idea,

how does it work? good question, so as you said lockdown haircut is the uk's first online virtual barber and it allows you to book a 20 minute video appointment with a professional barber he will then walk you or one your hair trend, so that no one has to south ever made out haircut during lockdown. the important thing to mention here is all of the profits that we generate from the website goes to supporting the above is directly and to supporting the nhs so we can really supporting the nhs so we can really support ourfront line supporting the nhs so we can really support our front line heroes for this difficult time. but you are relying on yourself all may be a flatmate to do this physically? exactly, so it is a slightly unconventional kind of haircut. i think probably for the first time in history that we have ever seen this kind of haircut being done on any kind of haircut being done on any kind of haircut being done on any kind of scale, but it is the best we can do for the moment and it is certainly a lot better than doing a diy haircut from youtube, which i actually experienced myself about two weeks ago and ended up with one

at the most horrendous haircut in my life. luckily i think it has grown out slightly now. but this is the next best thing to actually having a real barber cutting your hair for you. then, i could see you smiling for that. they have been some horrors over this period, haven't there? they really have and it has actually been quite shocking to see some of the pictures are mine. i hope it makes people realise just how difficult it is to do ourjob. the recommendation is to use clippers and you have got a pair with you. what are the main things to watch out for? i think the biggest thing to be careful of is to make sure that when you are using a set of clippers that you make sure you have your grades with you as well. the last thing you want to do is put a set of clippers onto a header straight with a zero and end up header straight with a zero and end up witha header straight with a zero and end up with a big bald patch in the middle of your head. that is not a cop good luck. i was telling one of my directors that this morning because he has done exactly that. dan, ifi because he has done exactly that. dan, if i can go back to you. what is the take up the air? what sort of

feedback are you gettingit has been fantastic, so today is the thursday we had opened our doors and we are fully booked for today and have really strong bookings for the rest of the week. on the barber side, it has been fantastic as well and we have had an influx of barbers contacting us asking if they could join and support the cause as well, so it has fantastic. what sort of experience have you had of when people say to their flatmate, will you do this for me? it is quite a responsibility, isn't it? it is, but i think at the same time there is a general consensus at the moment that no one is going to be supporting sporting the best haircut they had ever had, but this is an opportunity to try to avoid an absolute disaster. i think a bad haircut really has brought the country together in some kind of manner at the moment and it is now actually a cce pta ble the moment and it is now actually acceptable to have not an amazing haircut, but at the same time people still want to be able to have something that doesn't have chunks

missing from the hair. yes, then, a lockdown haircut is a thing at the moment. the trouble is, people get the clippers out and the scissors and just go straight for it, don't they? that is not how to approach this? yes, i really wouldn't advise just going straight in. if you are at home and don't want tojoin us on lockdown haircut, a couple of really simple hacks. just keep tidy around your ears here and here, so that when you are on a video call like this no one has to know what is going on behind the is, they can just see the front. also, definitely don't try to grow long beards because that is not going to look good at the moment. keep your facial hair nice and tight and clean and you will look ok for the video calls. dan, are you hiding something behind your head there? if you said you had a disastrous haircut, but you had a disastrous haircut, but you are looking fairly shame at the moment. what is going on at the back. yes, iam moment. what is going on at the back. yes, i am looking straight into the camera because of what is

behind. 0h, into the camera because of what is behind. oh, there is a bald patch! it isa behind. oh, there is a bald patch! it is a brilliant add, very clever. in terms of getting your friends to do it, there is a certain amount of trust there, isn't there? yes, definitely and i have had a certain amount of customers in contact with me about wanting to get a haircut here, but their partners or housemates are almost too scared to ta ke housemates are almost too scared to take the punch with them, so i have told them to hold tight. at the same time, if you do have a housemate or you do have a partner who isn't willing, try it anyway, we can try to coach you through doing your own haircut. 0h, to coach you through doing your own haircut. oh, come on, that could go wrong horribly! 0h, potentially, but at the end of the day we are raising money for charity and i think that is the main thing here. a lot of people, younger people, it was talking to my son and he has shaved off, they are all doing that, aren't they? i think it is a pretty easy way to actually avoid looking pretty

bad, so it is a good idea. if someone has a style, and what about women? because for then this is really important. would you advise them to just let it grow and wait? really important. would you advise them tojust let it grow and wait?|j mean, i would. them tojust let it grow and wait?|j mean, iwould. we them tojust let it grow and wait?|j mean, i would. we are sort of hoping tentatively that perhaps we will be back at work within 3—6 weeks, so i think if you can hold fire, i would advise definitely holding fire. dan, we should make the point that all those who use your service, they are professional hairdressers, aren't they? yes, that is correct. they are all professional and independent hairdressers, so this is all about providing the best possible haircut that we can and at the same time supporting the community. and when the time comes, you will get a proper haircut, will you? exactly. we are hoping to go out of business as soon as we can so we can all get back to normal life and have a proper haircut. that is a very rare

web quest, but i wish you luck with that. —— mike rye request. 0ne web quest, but i wish you luck with that. —— mike rye request. one last word, if someone says i am going in this afternoon, what is it? just ta ke this afternoon, what is it? just take it slowly? yes, the best piece of advice i can give you is do not ta ke of advice i can give you is do not take a clip that immediately to the top part of your hair here. it is going to go horribly wrong. take yourtime, going to go horribly wrong. take your time, ease yourself into it, see how you get on. and if it goes wrong, we want to see the pictures on facebook, twitter, anywhere you can. absolutely. yes, it goes wrong make sure you do post those photos because at the moment everyone needs a good laugh. yes. we don't all want to end up looking like dan, he was hoping to go out of business. other than that, it is all going really well! dan and then, really good to talk to you. good luck with it. you are watching bbc news, all the headlines coming up, but for now let's catch up with the weather.

hello again. high pressure remains firmly in charge this week, and earlier in the day one other weather watchers went for a socially distance walk along one at the beaches of lyme regis and there are blue skies nationwide, with the exception of the channel islands and the isles of scilly, where we do have some type bringing rain into france at the moment. that could get close enough to bring an odd isolated shower, but for the vast majority a dry day and a dry night as well, with clear starry skies. it will a quite breezy, temperature is around li—7d, lower in scotla nd temperature is around li—7d, lower in scotland possibly some frost that sheltered glands. 0n scotland possibly some frost that sheltered glands. on tuesday almost a carbon copy repeat performance nationwide. again, a gay of lots of sunshine and briskly easterly winds, gusting 30—110 miles an hour in places. and those easterly winds are flowing across a cool sea

temperatures, temperatures out in the water just temperatures, temperatures out in the waterjust 7—9d. that is why in eastern areas of scotland and england they are a bit cooler with temperatures 13—15d, but in london than that that is where we see the higher temperatures that the west, perhaps reaching the low 20s across parts of wales, the south—west with midlands and south—west england as well. the area of high pressure stays with us for wednesday as well, but the isobars are getting more widely spaced and that means it winds are going to be that bit lighter. for most on wednesday it has a dry day with sunshine from dawn till dusk, barely a cloud in the sky. with those lighter winds, temperatures can climb up a bit higher, even on our eastern coastal areas, 16 degrees in hell. pretty well on into the 20s because part of the england and wales and turning it warmerfor northern the england and wales and turning it warmer for northern ireland and western scotland as well. thursday is likely to be the warmest day of this week, again plenty of sunshine, although there could be the odd mist

orfog although there could be the odd mist or fog patch in although there could be the odd mist orfog patch in the although there could be the odd mist or fog patch in the countryside just to start the day. not lasting long at all and temperatures will peak at 24 degrees, so it is going to feel pleasa ntly warm 24 degrees, so it is going to feel pleasantly warm in the sunshine. beyond that, just a bit louder and cooler as we head into the weekend and the threat of the few isolated showers as well. that is your latest weather.

this is bbc news. the headlines. more warnings from hospitals in england over shortages of personal protective equipment — some say supplies of gowns are critically low — as the government inists the delivery of 400,000 protective gowns will arrive from turkey today mighti might i expect this flight to be coming later today and we are procuring from around the world to get the resources the nhs needs as well as other institutions. senior nhs figures say the delivery from turkey would be welcome but — with the unprecedented demand — it's simply not enough 400,000 gowns would be welcome if and when they arrive but the nhs is actually at full tilt, and is getting through 50,000 gowns a day.